Monday, May 16, 2016

Tourists put bison calf in car because they were worried it was cold

Karen Richardson from Victor, Idaho, was one of several parents chaperoning a group of students on a field trip to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, last week.

Richardson says as the students were being taught at Lamar Buffalo Ranch, a father and son pulled up at the ranger station with a bison calf in their SUV.
“They were demanding to speak with a ranger,” Richardson said. “They were seriously worried that the calf was freezing and dying.”

Law enforcement rangers were called and the father-and-son tourists, who were from another country, were ticketed.
Heusevelet says the rangers followed the pair back to where they had picked up the bison, and the animal was released.
Yellowstone visitors are not allowed to approach wildlife and are to stay at least 25 yards away from large animals.